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Researches prepare to drill off Long Beach Island (Asbury Park Press) - An international science team is making ready to drill deep below the sea floor east of Long Beach Island, seeking evidence from between 14 million and 35 million years ago that could foretell future sea level rise. "We know that was a period when the world endured a lot of changes in (polar and glacial) ice volume," said Gregory Mountain, a Rutgers University professor and co-chief scientist of ...

FBI Raids Office of Murdering Long Island "Ponzi" Dad (NBC New York) - FBI agents raided the Manhattan office this morning of a Long Island businessman who brutally murdered his family in a Baltimore hotel room last week before killing himself.

Long Island Gets Red Light Cameras (WCBS 880 New York) - Officials say Gov. David Paterson has signed legislation allowing ``red light cameras'' at dangerous intersections on Long Island in order to reduce accidents and generate badly needed revenue. READ MORE >>

William Parente's wife and daughters mourned at tearful Long Island wake (New York Daily News) - Mourners shared tearful hugs outside a Long Island funeral home Monday night where flowers blanketed the closed coffins of a mother and her two daughters brutally slain last week by the family patriarch.

Long Island to get "nation's fastest downstream broadband" (IT World) - That "summer office" in The Hamptons just got a lot more appealing, as Long Island, NY internet service provider Cablevision has announced its new Optimum Online Ultra service, scheduled to go live in May. When it does, it will "deliver the nation’s fastest downstream broadband connections" according to Cablevision . How fast is that?

Wake held at Long Island funeral home for victims in NY family's murder-suicide (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - The closed caskets of a mother and her two daughters are blanketed in flowers, and a line of mourners stretched out the door of a Long Island funeral home during the wake for the three who were found brutally beaten and strangled last week.

Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island (New York Times) - House tours in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Cathy Erway: From Gardening to Farming: A Glimpse at Long Island's Garden of Eve Organic Farm (HuffingtonPost) - Cross-posted from Not Eating Out in New York Not so long ago, I tended to associate Long Island with being stuck in squawking traffic on...

Taiwan president: China approves island WHO role (AP via Yahoo! News) - Taiwan said Wednesday it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key U.N. body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou's campaign to win greater international recognition for the democratic island.

Long Island School District Awards $12 Million Project to Atlantic Energy Solutions (Marketwire) - SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY--(Marketwire - April 27, 2009) - Atlantic Energy Solutions, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : AESO ) is pleased to announce that they have just been awarded a $12.2 million energy efficiency project from a Long Island, NY School District. This multifaceted project entails a new 200kw solar photovoltaic system, a 300kw cogeneration system, IT Network Management, Weatherization, major HVAC ...